How to Do Things with Sensors

<P><B>An investigation of how-to guides for sensor technologies</B><BR/><BR/> Sensors are increasingly common within citizen-sensing and DIY projects, but these devices often require the use of a how-to guide. From online instructional videos for troubleshooting sensor installations to handbooks for using and abusing the Internet of Things, the how-to genres and formats of digital instruction continue to expand and develop. As the how-to proliferates, and instructions unfold through multiple aspects of technoscientific practices, Jennifer Gabrys asks why the how-to has become one of the prevailing genres of the digital. <I>How to Do Things with Sensors</I> explores the ways in which things are made do-able with and through sensors and further considers how worlds are made sense-able and actionable through the instructional mode of citizen-sensing projects.<BR/><BR/><I>Forerunners: Ideas First</I><BR/><I>Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questio